Mouse study finds link between gut disease and brain injury in premature infants
E-Mail IMAGE: Photomicrographs demonstrating the impact of T lymphocytes (T cells) associated with the intestinal disease necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) on myelin -- a fatty material that surrounds and protects nerve cells --... view more Credit: C. Zhou, C. Sodhi and D. J. Hackam, Johns Hopkins Medicine Physicians have long known that necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), a potentially lethal inflammatory condition that destroys a premature infant's intestinal lining, is often connected to the development of severe brain injury in those infants who survive. However, the means by whic...
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